18th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 66 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150120200 | TWO STAGE SEISMIC VELOCITY MODEL GENERATION - A computer-implemented process includes: performing a first foil waveform inversion on an initial subsurface attribute model using low frequency, known source-signature data and low frequency humming seismic data to generate a first updated subsurface attribute model; and performing a second full waveform inversion on the first updated subsurface attribute model using low-frequency, narrowband sweeping known source-signature data and low-frequency, swept seismic data to generate a second updated subsurface attribute model. The process may be performed by a suitably programmed computing apparatus, the program residing on some form of non-transitory program storage medium. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120201 | CPR Chest Compression Monitor for Infants - Methods and devices for chest compression depth measurement for CPR performed on infants. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120202 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING BIOLOGICAL AGE OVER TIME BASED UPON HEART RATE VARIABILITY - A system and method for tracking biological age over time based upon heart rate variability includes an activity monitoring device configured to measure and transmit one or more biological age parameters, including heart rate variability, to a biological age calculation and display module configured to calculate a biological age factor as a function of the biological age parameters, calculate biological age as a function of the biological age factor and the user's actual age, and display the biological age. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120203 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING FATIGUE SOURCES - A system for identifying fatigue sources includes a processor and at least one computer program residing on the processor. The computer program is stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium having computer executable code embodied thereon. The computer executable code is configured to detect a fatigue level. The computer executable code is further configured to receive fatigue contribution data. In addition, the computer executable code is configured to identify a fatigue source based on the fatigue level and the fatigue contribution data. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120204 | TRANSCRIPTOME ASSEMBLY METHOD AND SYSTEM - Provided is a transcriptome assembly method, comprising the following steps of: constructing a sequencing sample transcriptome read into a de Brujin graph; performing filtering and linearization processing on the de Brujin graph, so as to form continuous contigs; obtaining association among the contigs, and filtering association data; performing linearization processing on a continuous sequence without bifurcation; outputting a contig sequence; comparing the read and an end pairing read with the output contig sequence, so as to obtain information between the read and the contig; establishing connections among the contigs, so as to construct a graph with the contigs as points and the connections as edges; pre-processing and dividing the obtained graph, so as to obtain independent sub-graphs; and outputting a transcript according to the sub-graphs. Further provided is a transcriptome assembly system based on the method. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120205 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING STRESS - A device for managing user stress is provided. The device includes a collection unit that collects stress related information, an analysis unit that determines a stress state, and an expression unit provides a stress related expression to a user. The collection unit may receive feedback from the user, and the feedback may be used for determining the stress state. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120206 | CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASE PATTERN DETERMINATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - Provided is a constitutional disease pattern determination apparatus including a calculator to calculate a first deficiency and excess index and a first cold and heat condition index of a user based on clinical information on the user, and a determiner to determine, based on a first reference table corresponding to a first constitution, a first constitutional disease pattern corresponding to the first deficiency and excess index and the first cold and heat condition index among a plurality of constitutional disease patterns included in the first reference table, wherein the first constitution is a constitution classified to correspond to the user based on a Sasang constitution. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120207 | Cardiac Mapping System And Method For Voltage-Based Evaluation Of Electrograms - Systems and methods for evaluating electrograms are described. An example method of evaluating an electrogram such as an atrial and/or ventricular electrogram containing a plurality of data samples each having a voltage includes selecting an activity interval for the electrogram, calculating an energy level for each window of a plurality of windows of the electrogram based on the voltages of the data samples in each window, assigning the calculated energy levels to a plurality of bins, and calculating an index based at least in part on a number of energy levels assigned to a particular bin of the plurality of bins. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120208 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALIGNING GENOME SEQUENCE IN CONSIDERATION OF ACCURACY - There are provided a sequence aligning device in consideration of accuracy, and a method thereof. The sequence aligning apparatus of an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a seed extracting unit configured to extract at least one seed that is exactly matched to a reference sequence from a read; a mapping score calculating unit configured to, with respect to each of the at least one extracted seed, map a left area and a right area of the read to the reference sequence based on the seed at each mapping position of the reference sequence of each seed, and calculate a left mapping score and a right mapping score of each mapping position from the mapping result; and a read aligning unit configured to determine a mapping position in each reference sequence of the at least one seed using the calculated left mapping score and right mapping score. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120209 | METHOD, COMPUTER-ACCESSIBLE MEDIUM, AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING A GENOME WIDE HAPLOTYPE SEQUENCE - Methods, computer-accessible medium, and systems for generating a genome wide probe map and/or a genome wide haplotype sequence are provided. In particular, a genome wide probe map can be generated by obtaining a plurality of detectable oligonucleotide probes hybridized to at least one double stranded nucleic acid molecule cleaved with at least one restriction enzyme, and detecting the location of the detectable oligonucleotide probes. For example, genome wide haplotype sequence can be generated by analyzing at least one genome wide restriction map in conjunction with at least one genome wide probe map to determine distances between restriction sites of the genome wide restriction map(s) and locations of detectable oligonucleotide probes of the genome wide probe map(s) and defining a consensus map indicating restriction sites based on the genome wide restriction map(s) and/or locations of detectable oligonucleotide probes based on each of the genome wide probe map(s). | 2015-04-30 |
20150120210 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR LABELLING SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM SITES IN GENOME - Disclosed are a method and a device for labelling single nucleotide polymorphism site in a genome. The above-mentioned method comprises: the single-end RAD sequences from the genomes of two individuals are obtained; the single-end RAD sequences are filtered to remove unqualified sequences; the sequencing depth of the sequences from the genomes of two individuals is aligned in pairs and without gaps to determine the SNP sites. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120211 | DETERMINING THE KNOCK RATING OF LIQUID SPARK-IGNITION ENGINE FUELS - A system and method for determining the octane rating of a fuel from a plurality of measurements at a test engine. The measurements may include a plurality of measurements regarding individual knock events, from which waveform attributes regarding the knock events can be determined and used in the calculation of the octane rating. The measurements may also include one or more environmental measurements, such as temperature, humidity, exhaust oxygen, etc., according to which the octane rating may be normalized or that may otherwise be applied into the calculation of the octane rating. The measurements may also include one or more engine property measurements corresponding to the condition of the test engine, according to which the octane rating may be normalized or that may otherwise be applied into the calculation of the octane rating, and that may be used to advise of maintenance events. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120212 | METHOD FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF DIFFERENCES IN ANALYTICAL DATA AND AN APPARATUS ADAPTED TO PERFORM SUCH A METHOD - A method of investigating differences in data produced by at least one analytical instrument comprising providing a first data set from a first sample in a plurality of data bins; providing a second data set from a second sample in a plurality of data bins; providing a data model of said data sets in which the data in a plurality of data bins from the first data set is linked to the data in the corresponding bins of the second data set, each linked pair having an associated switch parameter linking the two together; and, exploring the posterior probability distribution for the data model as a function of the switch parameters to produce a posterior probability distribution map. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120213 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND DISTINGUISHING MATERIALS, METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING OR DISTINGUISHING MATERIALS, AND MEASURING DEVICE FOR RECORDING MATERIAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS - A system for identifying or distinguishing materials, comprising at least one local apparatus and a central station. Each local apparatus comprises at least one measuring device for recording at least one actual signature for materials each and at least one local computer communicatively connected to the at least one measuring device, the at least one local computer having a local database for storing and/or processing the actual signature. The at least one central station comprises a server having a central database for storing and/or processing the actual signatures of the local apparatus. Furthermore, the system comprises a network, which communicatively connects the local computers of the local units via the server of the center. The invention further relates to a corresponding method for operating a system, to an analysis method for identifying or distinguishing the materials, and to a measuring device for recording material properties of the materials. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120214 | NON-REGRESSION METHOD OF A TOOL FOR DESIGNING A MONITORING SYSTEM OF AN AIRCRAFT ENGINE - The invention relates to a system of non-regression tests of a designing tool including modules ( | 2015-04-30 |
20150120215 | NON-CONTACT SIGNAL PROPAGATION PROPERTY EVALUATION OF SYNTHETIC FIBER ROPE - A non-contact evaluation system for evaluating a synthetic rope. The system includes a first transducer, a second transducer, and a processor. The first transducer is located at a first position and configured to convert a first electrical signal into a wave directed toward the synthetic rope under test. The wave has characteristics such that at least of a portion of the wave passes around a perimeter of the synthetic rope. The second transducer is located at a second position opposite the first position and radially aligned with the first transducer. The second transducer is also configured to receive and convert the portion of the wave into a second electrical signal. The processor is configured to determine a structural health measure of the synthetic rope based on the second electrical signal. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120216 | Process-Induced Distortion Prediction and Feedforward and Feedback Correction of Overlay Errors - Systems and methods for prediction and measurement of overlay errors are disclosed. Process-induced overlay errors may be predicted or measured utilizing film force based computational mechanics models. More specifically, information with respect to the distribution of film force is provided to a finite element (FE) model to provide more accurate point-by-point predictions in cases where complex stress patterns are present. Enhanced prediction and measurement of wafer geometry induced overlay errors are also disclosed. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120217 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING TORQUE TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS OF DRY TYPE CLUTCH - A method for estimating torque transmission characteristics of a dry type clutch may include a data receiving step for receiving information of an estimated point representing torque transmission of the clutch according to an actuator stroke acquired in real time while a vehicle is travelling, a reference points moving step for moving a series of four reference points selected on an existing line representing a change in the torque transmission of the clutch according to the actuator stroke, based on the received information of the estimated point, and an update step for newly plotting a line representing the change in the torque transmission of the clutch according to the actuator stroke, using the four reference points which have been moved. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120218 | NOVEL METHOD FOR REAL TIME TESTS AND DIAGNOSIS OF PARTIAL DISCHARGE SOURCES IN HIGH VOLTAGE EQUIPMENT AND INSTALLATIONS, WHICH ARE IN SERVICE OR OUT OF SERVICE, AND PHYSICAL SYSTEM FOR THE PRACTICAL USE OF THE METHOD - A method for detecting events associated with partial discharges (PDs) in high voltage equipment and installations diagnoses insulation conditions in real time by using PD signal noise discrimination by the parallel use of multiprocessors, which are additionally used for the discrimination, in real time, of different PD sources located in a single position or in different positions. In order to identify the various PD sources, three-dimensional clusters are formed using the coordinates of three parameters characteristic of each pulse: the parameter associated with the front time of the impulse, the parameter associated with the tail time and the parameter associated with the pulse frequency. The diagnostic method can be performed with grid voltage or independent generators as a voltage source, and the invention particularly relates to a novel voltage source designed therefor. A system for the implementation of the method captures PDs, and performs the necessary analysis and measurement. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120219 | DIGITAL COMPENSATION FOR ANTENNA LOAD MISMATCH - Methods, apparatuses, and systems for using Digital Signal Processing (DSP) to detect, measure, and/or compensate for, antenna load mismatch are described. One method provides a test sweep signal as digital input to a Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) in a transmit path ending with an antenna, and determines a transmit transfer function based on the digital input and digital output from an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) in a loopback path which is electrically connected in parallel with a load impedance of the antenna. The determined transmit transfer function may be used for any of detecting, measuring, and compensating for, antenna mismatch. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120220 | Detecting IC Reliability Defects - Methods and systems for detecting reliability defects on a wafer are provided. One method includes acquiring output for a wafer generated by an inspection system. The method also includes determining one or more geometric characteristics of one or more patterned features formed on the wafer based on the output. In addition, the method includes identifying which of the one or more patterned features will cause one or more reliability defects in a device being formed on the wafer based on the determined one or more characteristics. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120221 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING ISLANDING EFFECT IN POWER ELECTRICAL NETWORK TOPOLOGY - In an approach for detecting islanding effect in a power electrical network topology, a computer processor finds, in the power electrical network topology, a point of common coupling between a load and a distributed generation with potential islanding effect as well as a substation supplying power to said point of common coupling; collects operating parameters of the power grid in vicinity of said point of common coupling as well as in vicinity of said substation; determines whether islanding effect exists in said distributed generation and the load in accordance with a variation characteristic of the operating parameters of the power grid in vicinity of said point of common coupling and the operating parameters of the power grid in vicinity of said substation. Higher degree of accuracy and sensitivity of detecting islanding effect is achieved without compromising the energy quality on user side according to embodiments of the present invention. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120222 | PRACTICAL CONSERVATION VOLTAGE REDUCTION FORMULATION AND METHOD UTILIZING MEASUREMENT AND/OR ALARMING INFORMATION FROM INTELLIGENT DATA GATHERING AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY DEVICES - A process/method is provided, which facilitates achieving and obtaining realistic, accurate voltage observability of end customer service delivery points within the secondary distribution level using the alarming capability of intelligent data gathering and communication technology devices such as, but not necessarily limited to SCADA systems, distribution system RTU or SCADA, smart meters, smart gateways, and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) meters, or any device known in the art capable of sending alarm signals when voltage is detected above or below a predetermined threshold (generally herein defined as “Advanced Meters”). Such system and methods can be applied for many uses comprised of monitoring the energy grid, energy demand management and other energy industry applications, while minimizing operating and infrastructure/hardware costs. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120223 | DYNAMIC ONLINE ENERGY FORECASTING - Examples of dynamic online energy forecasting are provided herein. An energy forecast request is received. An initial energy forecast is calculated in response to the request. One or more of a plurality of energy forecast model instances are selected as candidate forecast model instances. At least one of the candidate instances are transformed into an improved forecast model instance having greater accuracy than the candidate forecast model instance. The transformation is accomplished by determining alternative values for at least some parameters of an energy forecast model of the candidate forecast model instance. An improved energy forecast having a greater accuracy than the initial forecast can then be calculated using the improved forecast model instance. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120224 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING DATA RELATING TO ENERGY USAGE - Processing of data relating to energy usage. First data relating to energy usage is loaded for analysis by an energy management platform. Second data relating to energy usage is stream processed by the energy management platform. Third data relating to energy usage is batch parallel processed by the energy management platform. Additional computing resources, owned by a third party separate from an entity that owns the computer system that supports the energy management platform, are provisioned based on increasing computing demand. Existing computing resources owned by the third party are released based on decreasing computing demand. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120225 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING DEGRADATION OF HIGH-VOLTAGE VEHICLE BATTERY - Provided are an apparatus and method for determining degradation of a high-voltage vehicle battery, and the apparatus for determining degradation of a high-voltage vehicle battery is configured to measure a battery state of health (SOH) according to a preset estimation calculation, thereby minimizing a battery degradation estimation error. According to the present invention, it is possible to calculate a capacity of a battery only using a current value and a state of charge (SOC) change value to estimate an SOH of the battery, thereby simplifying an algorithm for the estimation. In particular, it is also advantageously possible to estimate a battery SOH through a first estimation algorithm, compare the estimated battery SOH with a threshold value, determine whether to perform re-estimation, and if the re-estimation is determined, re-estimate the battery SOH through a second estimation algorithm, using a least mean square method, thereby minimizing an error in a battery SOH estimation value. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120226 | BATTERY DEGRADATION MONITORING SYSTEM - In a battery degradation monitoring system provided with a battery monitoring unit including a temperature sensor for detecting the ambient temperature of a battery mounted on a vehicle and a clock function unit to compute the state of charge and the degradation rate of the battery as a whole by inputting the voltages and temperatures of a plurality of battery modules of the battery from cell monitoring units when an ignition switch of the vehicle is on, the battery monitoring unit is further actuated by the clock function unit each time a predetermined period of time elapses when the ignition switch of the vehicle is off to integrate a degradation function formula with respect to the ambient temperature detected by the temperature sensor and compute the degradation rate of the battery when the ignition switch is off. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120227 | FACILITY SELECTION SUPPORTING METHOD AND FACILITY SELECTION SUPPORTING DEVICE - A facility selection supporting device calculates a total current value of consumers located in and after a certain power supply section on the way from a distribution substation to a particular consumer and outputs a recommended distribution facility for the power supply section based on the calculated total current value. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120228 | POWER-SYSTEM SHORT-CIRCUIT CAPACITY MONITORING METHOD AND SYSTEM THEREOF - Synchronous measuring terminals | 2015-04-30 |
20150120229 | PARTICULATE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - A particulate amount determination section of a particulate measurement system corrects a measurement signal or the amount of particulates determined from the measurement signal based on one or a plurality of three operating condition parameters selected from speed of the vehicle, rotational speed of the internal combustion engine and torque of the internal combustion engine. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120230 | INTELLIGENT ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH BROAD-RANGE HIGH ACCURACY - A method and apparatus provides high-accuracy measurements of an electrical parameter across a broad range of parameter input values. In one embodiment, an intelligent electronic device (IED), e.g., a digital electrical power and energy meter, with a plurality of independently-adjustable gain factors measures a parameter, and calculates and stores calibration factors associated with known values of the measured parameter. The IED or meter applies the stored calibration factors when measuring unknown values of the measured parameter, to improve the accuracy of the measurement. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120231 | Method for Function Setting of a Measuring Point and Measuring Point - A measuring point and method for function setting of a measuring point of process automation technology, wherein the measuring point comprises at least one sensor and a transmitter circuit. The sensor is connected via the transmitter circuit with a superordinated data processing system. The method comprises steps as follows: disconnecting the sensor from the transmitter circuit; connecting a mobile unit with the transmitter circuit and transferring parameters from the mobile unit into the transmitter circuit; disconnecting the mobile unit; connecting a, or the, sensor with the transmitter circuit; and transferring at least one parameter from the transmitter circuit into the sensor. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120232 | SHAPE CALCULATION APPARATUS AND METHOD, MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ARTICLE, STORAGE MEDIUM - A shape calculation apparatus obtains measurement data of a first shape of a first partial region on a surface to be measured, and obtains measurement data of a second shape of a second partial region partially overlapping the first partial region on the surface to be measured. The apparatus determines a first shape correction parameter and a second correction parameter so that the value of an evaluation function for evaluating shape data obtained by correcting the measurement data of the first and second shapes by the first shape correction parameter and the second correction parameter falls within a tolerance range. The apparatus generates shape data of an entire region including the first and second partial regions by respectively correcting the measurement data of the first and second shapes using the first shape correction parameter and the second correction parameter, and combining the corrected shape data. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120233 | PANEL INSPECTION APPARATUS AND DISPLAY PANEL - A panel inspection apparatus and a display panel are provided in the present invention. The panel inspection apparatus includes a data line detecting circuit and a scan line detecting circuit. The data line detecting circuit includes a data line detection switch, a control line of the data line detection switch, and a data line of the data line detection switch. The scan line detecting circuit includes a scan line detection switch, a control line of the scan line detection switch, and a data line of the scan line detection switch. The present invention further provides a display panel. The panel inspection apparatus does not need to be removed after detection of the panel in accordance with the panel inspection apparatus and the display panel of the present invention. Therefore, production costs of the display panel are reduced, and productivity of the display panel is improved. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120234 | SMART HANDLER RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A system for concurrently testing multiple semiconductor components includes multiple testers, each including a processor and a memory configured to store and execute control signals for completing testing of one of the semiconductor components, a tester side docking board, and a tester communication port. A handler has multiple test sites, each of which is configured to receive one of the semiconductor components, a handler side docking board, and a handler communication port. A controller is located externally from the testers and the handler and is in communication with each of the testers and the handler through the tester and handler communication ports. Communication between each of the testers and the handler occurs through the controller, and each of the testers is connected, via the tester side docking board, to a corresponding one of the semiconductor components through the handler side docking board. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120235 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING THE THERMAL MASS OF A BUILDING - The invention comprises a system for calculating a value for the effective thermal mass of a building. The climate control system obtains temperature measurements from at least a first location conditioned by the climate system. One or more processors receive measurements of outside temperatures from at least one source other than the control system and compare the temperature measurements from the first location with expected temperature measurements. The expected temperature measurements are based at least in part upon past temperature measurements obtained by said HVAC control system and said outside temperature measurements. The processors then calculate one or more rates of change in temperature at said first location. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120236 | Portable device for temperature by using a mobile device such as a phone tablet or laptop - The portable infrared ear thermometer accessory combines a body temperature measuring tool with a mobile device to measure, store, and send the body temperature of the user. The portable infrared ear thermometer device attaches to a mobile device, wired or wirelessly, to display the body temperature of the user, which is measured through the portable infrared ear thermometer attachment. The body temperature is displayed as a digital number on the mobile device through the corresponding software application as well as on the infrared ear thermometer device. The software application shows the user their body temperature in comparison with the normal body temperature range specific to that user's age; which is found by inspecting the user's date and using algorithms to calculate this range. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120237 | STAYING STATE ANALYSIS DEVICE, STAYING STATE ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND STAYING STATE ANALYSIS METHOD - A staying state analysis device measuring a stay frequency of moving objects in a target area and generating a heat map visualizing a state of distribution of the stay frequency includes: a position information sorter sorting pieces of position information of the moving objects according to a degree of possibility that the pieces of position information may include an error due to a missing part that may be in traffic lines of the moving objects; a missing part position detector detecting a position of the missing part in the traffic lines based on at least two groups of pieces of position information sorted by the sorter; a corrected distribution information generator generating corrected distribution information representing the stay frequency of the moving objects corrected based on a result of detection by the missing part position detector; and a heat map generator generating the heat map based on corrected distribution information. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120238 | MONITORING ADJUSTABLE WORKSTATIONS - According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method of monitoring utilization of an adjustable workstation includes automatically tracking a state of the adjustable workstation over time. The method further includes storing the state of the adjustable workstation over time across multiple selected arrangements of the adjustable workstation. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120239 | SLOPE CALCULATION DEVICE - A slope calculation device basically includes at least one first detection sensor, a speed sensor, a data storage device and a control unit. The at least one first detection sensor detects at least one parameter related to a first energy inputted to a bicycle by a rider of the bicycle. The speed sensor detects a travel speed at which the bicycle is traveling. The data storage device stores a total weight of the bicycle and the rider. The control unit is programmed to determine the first energy based on the parameter detected by the first detection sensor, calculate a second energy based on the travel speed detected by the speed sensor and the total weight of the bicycle and the rider stored in the data storage device. The control unit is further programmed to calculate a slope based on the first energy and the second energy. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120240 | SLOPE CALCULATION DEVICE - A slope calculation device basically includes at least one first detection sensor, a speed sensor, a data storage unit and a control unit. The at least one first detection sensor detects at least one parameter related to a first energy inputted to a bicycle. The speed sensor detects a travel speed at which the bicycle is traveling. The data storage unit stores a total weight of the bicycle and the rider. The control unit is programmed to determine the first energy based on the parameter detected by the first detection sensor, calculate a second energy based on the travel speed detected by the speed sensor and the total weight of the bicycle and the rider stored in the data storage unit. The control unit is further programmed to calculate a slope based on the first energy and the second energy. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120241 | Methods and Apparatus for Coded Time-of-Flight Camera - In illustrative implementations, a time-of-flight camera robustly measures scene depths, despite multipath interference. The camera emits amplitude modulated light. An FPGA sends at least two electrical signals, the first being to control modulation of radiant power of a light source and the second being a reference signal to control modulation of pixel gain in a light sensor. These signals are identical, except for time delays. These signals comprise binary codes that are m-sequences or other broadband codes. The correlation waveform is not sinusoidal. During measurements, only one fundamental modulation frequency is used. One or more computer processors solve a linear system by deconvolution, in order to recover an environmental function. Sparse deconvolution is used if the scene has only a few objects at a finite depth. Another algorithm, such as Wiener deconvolution, is used is the scene has global illumination or a scattering media. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120242 | GROUPING SPECTRAL DATA FROM POLISHING SUBSTRATES - Among other things, a computer-based method is described. The method comprises receiving, by one or more computers, a plurality of measured spectra reflected from a substrate at a plurality of different positions on the substrate. The substrate comprises at least two regions having different structural features. The method also comprises performing, by the one or more computers, a clustering algorithm on the plurality of measured spectra to separate the plurality of measured spectra into a number of groups based on the spectral characteristics of the plurality of measured spectra; selecting one of the number of groups to provide a selected group having a subset of spectra from the plurality of measured spectra; and determining, in the one or more computers, at least one characterizing value for the substrate based on the subset of spectra of the selected group. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120243 | REDUCING NOISE IN SPECTRAL DATA FROM POLISHING SUBSTRATES - Among other things, a machine based method comprises representing a plurality of spectra reflected from one or more substrates at a plurality of different positions on the one or more substrates in the form of a first matrix; decomposing, by one or more computers, the first matrix into products of at least two component matrixes of a first set of component matrixes; reducing dimensions of each of the at least two component matrixes to produce a second set of component matrixes containing the at least two matrixes with reduced dimensions; and generating, by the one or more computers, a second matrix by taking a product of the matrixes of the second set of component matrixes. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120244 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROAD WIDTH ESTIMATION - A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed to estimate road widths, irrespective of the presence of curbs or occlusions on the road surface. In the context of a method, a point cloud representing terrain is accessed. In one embodiment, the point cloud may be generated from lidar scanning during a trip. The point cloud is divided into sections representing portions of the terrain. The method further includes, for each section, identifying a ground planar surface of the section, estimating a drive plane of the section based on the ground planar surface and a drive direction, and calculating a road width of the section based on the ground planar surface and drive plane. The method may further include applying a smoothing algorithm to adjust the calculated road width of at least one section. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120245 | GENERATING DATA MANIPULATION TOOLS USING PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS CHAINS - A custom data manipulation tool may be created that allows a user to perform one or more statistical analysis steps with reduced configuration. A statistical analysis process chain is exported as a data manipulation tool that allows a user to later execute the statistical algorithm with minimal inputs. Rather than setting up a new statistical analysis process chain every time a user wishes to perform statistical analysis on a set of data, the user may use the previously configured and stored data manipulation tool to perform the statistical analysis. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120246 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR GATHERING AND USING OPERATING DATA FROM A LIGHTING PRODUCT - A system, method, and apparatus for gathering operating information from a lighting product. The lighting product includes an embedded persistent memory unit and processor configured to store data operating parameters in the memory unit. The memory unit may be accessed up through and after end-of-life of the lighting product. The memory unit may be physically removable, or may be accessible via a wired or wireless interface such as an NFC tag. The lighting product memory unit is accessed at an in-store kiosk by plugging the lighting product into a socket or swiping the lighting product with an NFC tag reader. Data recovered from the memory unit is used to select and display a range of suitable replacement lighting products from a database. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120247 | DIAGNOSTIC METHOD FOR AN ENGINE-GENERATOR SET - A diagnostic test is conducted by operating an engine-generator set at a plurality of reduced speeds. At each of those speeds, operating parameters of the engine are sensed and analyzed to detect an unsatisfactory operating condition. For example, such operating parameters may include speed of the engine-generator set, engine oil pressure and level, engine temperature, coolant level, and battery voltage. When a transition in engine speed occurs, a throttle test also may be conducted to measure how quickly and smoothly the engine reaches the new speed. After the engine reaches the normal operating speed, the generator is activated to produce electricity. One or more characteristic of that electricity, such as voltage, current and frequency, are sensed and evaluated to detect an unsatisfactory operating condition. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120248 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING MACHINE FAULTS - A method for diagnosing machine faults, includes obtaining sensory data from a machine and obtaining a plurality of measured structural features based on the sensory data. The method also includes obtaining a plurality of reference cases corresponding to the sensory data, from a database. The plurality of reference cases include a plurality of reference structural features and a plurality of fault identifiers. The method further includes computing a statistical parameter based on the plurality of reference cases and obtaining a first subset of reference structural features from the plurality of reference structural features based on the computed statistical parameter. The method also includes computing a plurality of similarity values based on the obtained first subset of reference structural features and the plurality of measured structural features. The method further includes identifying at least one fault identifier among the plurality of fault identifiers, based on the computed plurality of similarity values. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120249 | PATIENT MONITOR SENSOR TYPE AUTO CONFIGURATION - A method and system that allows various sensor types to be connected to common input ports of a patient monitor. The system includes a data acquisition module that identifies the type of sensor connected to each one of a plurality of input ports. Once the sensor type has been identified, the data acquisition module configures amplification circuits and input circuits such that the output signal from the sensor is properly received and amplified within the patient monitor. The properly amplified output signal from the sensor, along with a sensor identifier, is supplied to a controller of the patient monitor. In this manner, the patient monitor can identify the type of sensor connected to each input port and properly display the conditioned output signal from the sensor. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120250 | VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF CIRCUIT RELATED DATA - A circuit description, such as a hierarchical netlist, is obtained for an integrated circuit. Based on the circuit description, a treemap representation is rendered using blocks, nodes, and/or devices from the hierarchical netlist as objects, or leaves, in the treemap representation. Using a virtual layout, the leaves are positioned in the treemap representation independent of their physical layout. Circuit properties for the electronic design are also obtained using various methods such as a circuit simulator. The circuit properties are displayed to a user on the treemap representation. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120251 | SYSTEM FOR 3D RECONSTRUCTION OF AS-BUILT INDUSTRIAL MODEL FROM 3D DATA - A system for constructing a 3D industrial model from 3D data according to an embodiment of the present invention may include an object extracting unit configured to extract first to nth objects from 3D data obtained using a 3D data acquisition device, a connection relation determining unit configured to select at least one of the first to nth objects as a reference object, and selects an object satisfying a first condition with respect to the selected reference object as a connection object, and an object determining unit configured to compare information on the reference object and the connection object with data including information on actual objects so as to determine at least one of the reference object and the connection object as a specific object. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120252 | CAX MODEL SYNCHRONIZATION - A computer-implemented method for collaborative editing of an electronic model of a design object may include (1) identifying clients configured to submit design operations to be performed on a shared design model, (2) receiving, from a first client, a first design operation to be performed on the shared design model prior to receiving, from a second client, a second design operation to be performed on the shared design model, (3) performing the first design operation prior to attempting to perform the second design operation, (4) identifying a conflict between the two design operations, and (5) in response to identifying the conflict between the design operations, notifying the second client that the second design operation was not performed on the shared design model. Various other methods and systems are also disclosed herein. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120253 | Reconfigurable Garment Definition and Production Method - Computer-aided design and manufacture software and hardware automate garment and fashion definition and production. Configurable garment includes ornamental element, pattern display, and personal identifier and wireless sensor electronics. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120254 | MODEL ESTIMATION DEVICE AND MODEL ESTIMATION METHOD - A model estimation device includes: a data input unit | 2015-04-30 |
20150120255 | DETERMINING PERFORMANCE DATA FOR HYDROCARBON RESERVOIRS USING DIFFUSIVE TIME OF FLIGHT AS THE SPATIAL COORDINATE - The present disclosure provides a technique for determining performance data for hydrocarbon reservoirs using data storage, an output device and one or more processors. A heterogeneous multi-dimensional model of at least a portion of the hydrocarbon reservoir divided into cells is obtained. Each cell has a volume and one or more other attributes. A diffusive time of flight is calculated based upon the heterogeneous multi-dimensional model. The heterogeneous multi-dimensional model is transformed to an equivalent homogeneous one-dimensional model by defining the diffusive time of flight as a spatial variable. The performance data for the hydrocarbon reservoir is determined based on the equivalent homogeneous one-dimensional model, and the performance data is provided to the output device. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120256 | METHOD OF RECONSTRUCTING HAPLOTYPE OF DIPLOID AND SYSTEM THEREOF - Provided is a method and system of reconstructing a haplotype of a diploid. The method can include constructing a matrix of sequence fragments consisting of ternary character based on sequence fragments comprising at least one common site, wherein in the matrix of sequence fragments, two allelic bases of an SNP site in chromosome fragments are labeled with A and B respectively; initializing two fragment sets of based on the matrix of sequence fragments; determining an objective function and an initial reference temperature; performing a process of simulated annealing based on the objective function and the initial reference temperature, and outputting final sets until a convergence criteria is achieved; inferring a haplotype based on the final sets by means of minimum error correction. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120257 | METHOD OF OPERATING OSCILLATOR INCLUDING VERIFICATION OF OPERATION OF THE OSCILLATOR - A method of verifying operation of an oscillator includes performing a Monte-Carlo simulation with respect to points in an initial-conditions space, and then judging whether a frequency error exists. An oscillation error is determined to exist when the frequency error exists. Additional operations include determining a point at which a probability of having a settling time longer than a maximum value, of a settling time obtained up to a present time, is maximum when the frequency error does not exist. The Monte-Carlo simulation is then performed on the determined point to judge whether the frequency error exists. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120258 | PARTICLE-BASED MODELING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A particle-based modeling method and apparatus may include searching for a second particle neighboring a first particle in a vector field at a current time, and updating a position of each of the first particle and the second particle in each vector field over time, based on correcting a velocity of each of the first particle and the second particle based on a variation satisfying an incompressible constraint condition for each of the first particle and the second particle. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120259 | PHYSICAL MODELING OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES/SYSTEMS - A method for modeling a material at least partially-defined by atomic information includes, for each of a plurality of configurations of the material, determining energy moments for a density of states of the respective configuration of the material, and generating a tight binding Hamiltonian matrix for the respective configuration of the material. The method further includes, for each of the plurality of configurations of the material, forming a tight binding model of the configuration of the material by resolving a linking of (i) the energy moments for the density of states of the material to (ii) the tight binding Hamiltonian matrix for the material. Still further the method includes, based on the tight binding models for each of the configurations of the material, forming an environmentally-adapted tight binding model. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120260 | NON-CONVEX HULL SURFACES - The invention is a computer implemented method, device, system, or article for reconstructing a surface of an object. In particular, the invention comprises estimating a non-convex hull signed distance function parameters from a data set of an object and evaluating the non-convex hull signed distance function on vertices of a volumetric mesh. The invention further comprises approximating the zero level set of the non-convex hull signed distance function by a polygonal mesh using an isosurface algorithm to provide surface reconstruction of an object. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120261 | FINITE ELEMENT METHODS AND SYSTEMS - The computational efficiency of Finite Element Methods (FEM) on parallel architectures is typically severely limited by sparse iterative solvers. Standard iterative solvers are based on sequential steps of global algebraic operations, which limit their parallel efficiency, and prior art techniques exploit sophisticated programming techniques tailored to specific CPU architectures to improve performance. The inventors present a FEM Multigrid Gaussian Belief Propagation (FMGaBP) technique that eliminates global algebraic operations and sparse data-structures based upon reformulating the variational FEM into a probabilistic inference problem based upon graphical models. Further, the inventors present new formulations for FMGaBP, which further enhance its computation and communication complexities where the parallel features of FMGaBP are leveraged to multicore architectures. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120262 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF MULTI-SCALE MESHING FOR GEOLOGIC TIME MODELING - A system and method for modeling a geological structure may include, in an initial model, computing a first function for a geological structure including a first set of iso-surfaces. A processor may detect if the first set of iso-surfaces intersect a set of geological markers within a threshold proximity. If not, the initial model may be corrected using an induced mesh having an increased cell resolution compare to the initial model for computing a second function for the geological structure including a second set of iso-surfaces that intersect the geological markers within the threshold proximity. A processor may insert the second set of iso-surfaces into a second model to locally increase its resolution relative to the initial model by dividing cells in the second model along the second set of iso-surfaces. For each new geological structure, the above steps may be repeated using the second model as the initial model. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120263 | Computer-Implemented Systems and Methods for Testing Large Scale Automatic Forecast Combinations - Systems and methods are provided for evaluating performance of forecasting models. A plurality of forecasting models may be generated using a set of in-sample data. Two or more forecasting models from the plurality of forecasting models may be selected for use in generating a combined forecast. An ex-ante combined forecast may be generated for an out-of-sample period using the selected two or more forecasting models. The ex-ante combined forecast may then be compared with a set of actual out-of-sample data to evaluate performance of the combined forecast. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120264 | RESEVOIR MODEL TUNING WITH COMPLEX PARAMETER INTERACTIONS - Methods, systems, and non-transitory, computer-readable media for tuning a model of a subterranean domain. The method may include determining a relationship between a first parameter of the model and a second parameter of the model. A modification to the first parameter causes the second parameter to be modified according to the relationship. The method may also include receiving data representing a physical characteristic of a reservoir represented in the model of the subterranean domain, and modifying the first parameter based at least partially on the data. The method may also include modifying the second parameter based on the relationship, by operation of a processor. The method may further include updating the model using the first parameter and the second parameter after modifying the first parameter and after modifying the second parameter. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120265 | SYSTEM FOR POLYNUCLEOTIDE CONSTRUCT DESIGN, VISUALIZATION AND TRANSACTIONS TO MANUFACTURE THE SAME - The present invention disclose a computerized system for designing nucleic acid sequences for gene expression comprising; (a) a server [ | 2015-04-30 |
20150120266 | PLATFORM FRAMEWORK FOR WIRELESS MEDIA DEVICE SIMULATION AND DESIGN - Embodiments of the invention relate generally to electrical and electronic hardware, computer aided simulation and design, high-level language numerical computation, analysis, programming, and visualization of designs, target hardware compilers, assembly code, computer software, wired and wireless network communications, wearable, hand held, and portable computing devices for facilitating communication of information. More specifically, disclosed is a framework for computer aided simulation and design of audio processors including noise suppression systems for wireless media devices for one or more target hardware platforms. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120267 | PLATFORM FRAMEWORK FOR WIRELESS MEDIA DEVICE SENSOR SIMULATION AND DESIGN - Embodiments of the invention relate generally to electrical and electronic hardware, computer aided simulation and design, high-level language numerical computation, analysis, programming, and visualization of designs, target hardware compilers, assembly code, executable firmware, acoustic, mechanical, and electrical sensors, computer software, wired and wireless network communications, wearable, hand held, and portable computing devices for facilitating communication of information. More specifically, disclosed is a framework for computer aided simulation and design of sensor systems for wireless media devices for one or more target hardware platforms. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120268 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIMULATING A DIGITAL CIRCUIT - The present invention discloses a method for simulating a digital circuit. comprising: acquiring a gate-level netlist of the digital circuit, the gate-level netlist indicating at least one gate circuit included in the digital circuit and a connection relationship thereof; modifying the netlist, so as to add a timing and power model of each gate circuit, which is used to calculate a time delay generated when a signal inputted to the gate circuit passes through the gate circuit and a power consumed by the gate circuit during its operation; and simulating the digital circuit based on the modified netlist. By adding into the netlist the timing and power model of each gate circuit included in the digital circuit, a power estimation of the digital circuit can be performed while a function verification is performed on the digital circuit, thus function verification is seamlessly combined with the power estimation. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120269 | EFFICIENT FORECASTING FOR HIERARCHICAL ENERGY SYSTEMS - Examples of energy forecasting in hierarchical energy systems are provided herein. A global forecast model instance for a hierarchical energy system can be determined through aggregation of energy forecast model data from individual energy smart meters. Energy forecast model data can include values for energy forecast model parameters used by the individual smart meters. The energy smart meters include measurement, forecasting, and calculation capabilities. The smart meters locally determine a forecast model instance used by the smart meter and provide corresponding information to higher levels in the energy system hierarchy. A global forecast model instance is determined based on the provided information. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120270 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATING SMART GRID COMMON INFORMATION MODEL INTEROPERABILITY TEST - Disclosed are an apparatus and method for automating a smart grid interoperability test and verification. It is possible to allow a tester to easily establish a test environment needed to test a CIM interoperability by providing a function that allows a tester to directly set and create a test node, a CIM test sequence, and a test sequence metadata, and it is also possible to reduce time and cost taken to test and verify the CIM interoperability by automatically compare and analyze a CIM message monitored in an actual test process with CIM message metadata set in a test scenario creation stage. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120271 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUALIZATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS - A system for visualizing and optimizing the operation of a system of systems. A Design of Experiments is conducted for a particular system of systems architecture using a simulation engine based upon a predefined set of inputs. The results are stored in a database as real data. Surface Response Models are built based upon the results and simulation data is generated and stored based on the Surface Response Models for data not present in the results. The results of the Design of Experiments are filtered to identify key variables. Values and rankings are selected for the key variables. An interim output is generated and displayed based on the selected values and rankings. The interim output is determined based on the real and simulation data. The results are verified by performing a simulation based on the selected values and comparing the simulation output with the interim output. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120272 | EXPRESSING EXTENSIONS WITH CUSTOMIZED DESIGN TIME BEHAVIOR - A customization environment uses a customization system that models customizations to a base computer system. The customization system receives developer inputs that customize the design time behavior of a form control by modeling it with an extension model. Based on the developer inputs, the customization system generates an extension expression that expresses the design time behavior of the form control. The extension expression can express the design time behavior through the addition of attributes representing the design time behavior or through code authored in an extensibility framework. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120273 | NETWORKED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A networked language translation system and method allowing access by a distributed network of human and machine translators that communicate electronically to provide for the translation of material. The system and method provide a way to aggregate the resources of a large number of intermittently available, mixed competency translators, human or machine, in order to provide high-quality translations. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120274 | Language Translation System - In a computerized device, a method for translating a text field includes receiving a first text field in a first language, accessing at least one translation database, and retrieving from the at least one translation database a second text field in a second language based upon the first text field in the first language, the second text field in the second language configured as a translation of the first text field in the first language. The method includes storing the first text field in the first language and the second text field in the second language as an audit entry in an audit entry database and outputting the second text field in the second language. The audit entry can include a translation attribute which provides information regarding the translation of the first text field, such as high level language information, geographic information, industry information associated and/or specific user information. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120275 | TRANSLATING BETWEEN SPOKEN AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE - Techniques for converting spoken speech into written speech are provided. The techniques include transcribing input speech via speech recognition, mapping each spoken utterance from input speech into a corresponding formal utterance, and mapping each formal utterance into a stylistically formatted written utterance. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120276 | INTELLIGENT GLASSES - An intelligent pair of glasses includes a frame, a pair of glasses held by the frame, an input unit, a camera unit, a projection device rotatably coupled to the frame, and a processor. The input unit generates a control signal for taking photos in response to user inputs. The processor includes a camera control module, a word identification module, a translation module, and a display control unit. The camera control module activates the camera unit and controls the camera unit to capture images according to the control signal to capture an image showing words in an initial language. The word identification module identifies the words shown in the in the image. The translation module translates the words identified in the initial language into words in a target language. The display control unit controls the projection device to project the translated words in the target language onto a surface. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120277 | Method, Device And System For Providing Language Service - A method, device and system for providing a language service are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method is performed at a computer system having one or more processors and memory for storing programs to be executed by the one or more processors. The method includes receiving a first message from a client device. The method includes determining if the first message is in a first language or a second language different than the first language. The method includes translating the first message into a second message in the second language if the first message is in the first language. The method includes, alternatively, generating a third message in the second language if the first message is in the second language, where the third message includes a conversational response to the first message. The method further includes returning one of the second message and the third message to the client device. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120278 | TRANSLATION AND INTEGRATION OF PRESENTATION MATERIALS WITH CROSS-LINGUAL MULTI-MEDIA SUPPORT - Computer-based systems and methods are disclosed for translation of a multi-media presentation (e.g., a lecture) along with the accompanying presentation materials. Translation and delivery of text-based presentation materials to a listener is annotated and aligned with audio, so that the listener can follow both the audio and the presentation material. The content of the presentation materials can be used to improve presentation translation, as it extracts supportive material from the presentation materials as they relate to the speech. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120279 | TECHNIQUES FOR TRANSLATING TEXT VIA WEARABLE COMPUTING DEVICE - A method of presenting translated content items is disclosed. It is detected that a content item has been captured by a device of a user. It is identified that the content item is a candidate content item for translation. The candidate content item is translated; and the translated candidate content item is presented via a user interface of a wearable display of the device. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120280 | TRANSLATED NEWS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for augmenting clusters of news articles with translated news articles. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining data characterizing a first cluster of electronically published news articles in a presentation language, wherein the data characterizing the first cluster of news articles comprises one or more terms in the presentation language and region data identifying a first geographical region associated with the first cluster; generating translated terms by translating one or more of the terms from the presentation language to a first language, wherein the first language corresponds to the first geographical region; and obtaining one or more news articles in the first language in response to a search query derived from the one or more translated terms. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120281 | AUTOMATIC SENTENCE PUNCTUATION - An aspect provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device input component, user input comprising a sentence; identifying, using a processor, the sentence; determining, using the processor, correct punctuation for the sentence identified; determining, using the processor, a confidence level for the correct punctuation determined; and responsive to the confidence level exceeding a predetermined threshold, automatically modifying, using the processor, the sentence based on the correct punctuation determined. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120282 | PRESERVING EMOTION OF USER INPUT - An aspect provides a method, identifying: receiving, at an input component of an information handling device, user input comprising one or more words; identifying, using a processor of the information handling device, an emotion associated with the one or more words; creating, using the processor, an emotion tag including the emotion associated with the one or more words; and storing the emotion tag in a memory. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120283 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOOD STATE DETERMINATION - Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for determining an overall mood score of a document. For example, the document is received from a computer-readable medium. A text segment in a document is identified to be indicative of a mood of the document. The text segment is mapped to a mood scale among a predetermined set of mood scales. A mood weight associated with the mood scale for the text segment is generated. An overall mood score of the document is determined based at least in part on the mood weight. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120284 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING COMMUNICATION QUALITY OF RADIO - An apparatus includes a user input unit, a display unit, a control unit, and a buffer unit. The display unit includes a speed setting menu. The control unit selects a mode from the speed setting menu in response to the selection signal of the user, and controls a compression ratio of a voice codec and a transfer rate of a modem corresponding to a transmission-side radio, and a reception rate of a modem and a restoration rate of a voice codec corresponding to a reception-side radio, based on the selected mode. The buffer unit performs a storage function if there is a difference between the compression ratio of the voice codec and the transfer rate of the modem or if there is a difference between the reception rate of the modem and the restoration rate of the voice codec. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120285 | Systems and Methods for Reconstructing an Audio Signal from Transformed Audio Information - A system and method may be configured to reconstruct an audio signal from transformed audio information. The audio signal may be resynthesized based on individual harmonics and corresponding pitches determined from the transformed audio information. Noise may be subtracted from the transformed audio information by interpolating across peak points and across trough points of harmonic pitch paths through the transformed audio information, and subtracting values associated with the trough point interpolations from values associated with the peak point interpolations. Noise between harmonics of the sound may be suppressed in the transformed audio information by centering functions at individual harmonics in the transformed audio information, the functions serving to suppress noise between the harmonics. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120286 | APPARATUS, PROCESS, AND PROGRAM FOR COMBINING SPEECH AND AUDIO DATA - There is provided a speech processing apparatus including: a data obtaining unit which obtains music progression data defining a property of one or more time points or one or more time periods along progression of music; a determining unit which determines an output time point at which a speech is to be output during reproducing the music by utilizing the music progression data obtained by the data obtaining unit; and an audio output unit which outputs the speech at the output time point determined by the determining unit during reproducing the music. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120287 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MODELS FOR EMBEDDED SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices for fetching speech processing models based on context changes in advance of speech requests using the speech processing models. An example local device configured to practice the method, having a local speech processor, and having access to remote speech models, detects a change in context. The change in context can be based on geographical location, language translation, speech in a different language, user language settings, installing or removing an app, and so forth. The local device can determine a speech processing model that is likely to be needed based on the change in context, and that is not stored on the local device. Independently of an explicit request to process speech, the local device can retrieve, from a remote server, the speech processing model for use on the mobile device. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120288 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PERFORMING AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION USING LOCAL PRIVATE DATA - A method of providing hybrid speech recognition between a local embedded speech recognition system and a remote speech recognition system relates to receiving speech from a user at a device communicating with a remote speech recognition system. The system recognizes a first part of speech by performing a first recognition of the first part of the speech with the embedded speech recognition system that accesses private user data, wherein the private user data is not available to the remote speech recognition system. The system recognizes the second part of the speech by performing a second recognition of the second part of the speech with the remote speech recognition system. The final recognition result is a combination of these two recognition processes. The private data can be such local information as a user location, a playlist, frequently dialed numbers or texted people, user contact list information, and so forth. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120289 | PREDICTING RECOGNITION QUALITY OF A PHRASE IN AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS - A method for predicting a speech recognition quality of a phrase comprising at least one word includes: receiving, on a computer system including a processor and memory storing instructions, the phrase; computing, on the computer system, a set of features comprising one or more features corresponding to the phrase; providing the phrase to a prediction model on the computer system and receiving a predicted recognition quality value based on the set of features; and returning the predicted recognition quality value. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120290 | CLIENT-SERVER ARCHITECTURE FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION APPLICATIONS - A client-server architecture for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) applications, includes: (a) a client-side including: a client being part of distributed front end for converting acoustic waves to feature vectors; VAD for separating between speech and non-speech acoustic signals; adaptor for WebSockets; and (b) a server side including: a web layer utilizing HTTP protocols and including a Web Server having a Servlet Container; an intermediate layer for transport based on Message-Oriented Middleware being a message broker; a recognition server and an adaptation server both connected to said intermediate layer; a Speech processing server; a Recognition Server for instantiation of a recognition channel per client; an Adaptation Server for adaptation acoustic and linguistic models for each speaker; a Bidirectional communication channel between a Speech processing server and client side; and a Persistent layer for storing a Language Knowledge Base connected to said Speech processing server. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120291 | Scene Recognition Method, Device and Mobile Terminal Based on Ambient Sound - The present document provides a scene recognition method and device based on ambient sound and a mobile terminal. The device includes: a sound collection module, a preprocessing module, a feature extraction module, a scene recognition module and a database. The method includes: collecting a sound signal; processing the sound signal into a frequency domain signal; extracting sound feature information from the frequency domain signal; inputting the sound feature information under a preset model, matching a model output result with weight values of sound sample models of scenes, and determining a scene corresponding to the sound feature information. The present document implements locating based on background sound information as the feature of the scene, so that the mobile terminal quickly and correctly recognizes the current scene under the maintaining low-consumption state. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120292 | Method for Identifying Speech and Music Components of a Sound Signal - The present invention relates to means and methods of automated difference recognition between speech and music signals in voice communication systems, devices, telephones, and methods, and more specifically, to systems, devices, and methods that automate control when either speech or music is detected over communication links. The present invention provides a novel system and method for monitoring the audio signal, analyze selected audio signal components, compare the results of analysis with a pre-determined threshold value, and classify the audio signal either as speech or music. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120293 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING USER SPEECH IN A COMMUNICATION SESSION - A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, receive user speech captured at a second end user device during a communication session between the second end user device and a first end user device, apply speech recognition to the user speech, identify an unclear word in the user speech based on the speech recognition, adjust the user speech to generate adjusted user speech by replacing all or a portion of the unclear word with replacement audio content, and provide the adjusted user speech to the first end user device during the communication session. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120294 | APPLIANCES FOR PROVIDING USER-SPECIFIC RESPONSE TO VOICE COMMANDS - Generally the present disclosure is directed to appliances that provide a user-specific response to a received voice command. In particular, the appliance can store a plurality of voice samples respectively associated with a plurality of users. The appliance can also store one or more preferences for each of the plurality of users. For example, the preferences can be input by the user and/or learned or inferred over time. When the appliance receives a human speech signal or voice command, it can match the received speech signal against one or more of the plurality of voice samples to identify the user. The preferences stored and associated with the identified user can then be obtained and the appliance can perform any requested operations in accordance with the obtained preferences. In such fashion, the appliance can provide a user-specific response to a received voice command. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120295 | VOICE-BASED INTERACTIVE CONTENT AND USER INTERFACE - A method, device, system, and computer medium for providing interactive advertising are provided. For example, a device may request an advertisement from a remote server, receive the advertisement, receive a response from a user who is listening and/or watching the advertisement, and transmit the response to the server for further action. The user may input a response by speaking. A server may receive an advertisement request from the device, select an advertisement based on pre-defined one or more criteria, transmit the selected advertisement to the device for play, receive from the device a response to the selected advertisement, and then perform an action corresponding to the received response. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120296 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING NETWORK-BASED VERSUS EMBEDDED SPEECH PROCESSING - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for making a multi-factor decision whether to process speech or language requests via a network-based speech processor or a local speech processor. An example local device configured to practice the method, having a local speech processor, and having access to a remote speech processor, receives a request to process speech. The local device can analyze multi-vector context data associated with the request to identify one of the local speech processor and the remote speech processor as an optimal speech processor. Then the local device can process the speech, in response to the request, using the optimal speech processor. If the optimal speech processor is local, then the local device processes the speech. If the optimal speech processor is remote, the local device passes the request and any supporting data to the remote speech processor and waits for a result. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120297 | VOICE-RESPONSIVE BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A voice-responsive building management system is described herein. One system includes an interface, a dynamic grammar builder, and a speech processing engine. The interface is configured to receive a speech card of a user, wherein the speech card of the user includes speech training data of the user and domain vocabulary for applications of the building management system for which the user is authorized. The dynamic grammar builder is configured to generate grammar from a building information model of the building management system. The speech processing engine is configured to receive a voice command or voice query from the user, and execute the voice command or voice query using the speech training data of the user, the domain vocabulary, and the grammar generated from the building information model. | 2015-04-30 |
20150120298 | VOICE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AN IMPLANT - A system for the control of an implant ( | 2015-04-30 |
20150120299 | VAD Detection Apparatus and Method of Operating the Same - At a processing device, a first signal from a first microphone and a second signal from a second microphone are received. The first signal indicates whether a voice signal has been determined at the first microphone, and the second signal indicates whether a voice signal has been determined at the second microphone. When the first signal indicates potential voice activity or the second signal indicates potential voice activity, the processing device is activated to receive data and the data is examined for a trigger word. When the trigger word is found, a signal is sent to an application processor to further process information from one or more of the first microphone and the second microphone. When no trigger word is found, the processing device is reset to deactivate data input and allowing the first microphone and the second microphone to enter or maintain an event detection mode of operation. | 2015-04-30 |